The girl powering of global politics

Walters, Rosemary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2649-7065 2024. The girl powering of global politics. International Politics 61 , pp. 361-378. 10.1057/s41311-023-00504-1

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Abstract

Recent years have seen unprecedented interest in girls’ activism, and yet our understanding of their politics is still limited.  More broadly, children have largely been absent from International Relations scholarship, despite the centrality of childhood and our understandings of it to global politics.  Where they have featured, it is often as victims of phenomena beyond their control, or as the perpetrators of crimes, but rarely as active subjects able to influence politics for the better. In this article, I review the emerging literature that aims to conceptualise girls’ agency in global politics.  I show the parallels between recent work in Girlhood Studies and in feminist and postcolonial IR, in exploring the potential for feminist activism within and against neoliberalism. Finally, I outline how a ‘transnational girlhoods’ approach might enable feminist scholars to explore how girls across a range of different contexts are challenging inequalities.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics
Subjects:	J Political Science > JZ International relations
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
ISSN:	1384-5748
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	27 September 2023
Date of Acceptance:	16 August 2023
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2024 14:04
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/162298

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